CAUSE OF THE CAWS X

The answers to the clues below are based on homophones or near-homophones.

Example: Reason for the crows' noise
Answer: Cause of the caws

1. Entire and a leather-piercing tool
2. Spoken and permitted
3. Change and a church part
4. A climbing or rising and an expression of agreement
5. Portend and a wood-boring tool
6. At a distance and an anchor clearing the ocean floor
7. Healing salve and a weapon of destruction
8. Enjoy the sun and one from Northern Spain
9. Seashore and a tree
10. Start of life and a ship or train bed
11. Broth and bulk gold or silver
12. Air in the lungs and wideness
13. Facial feature and shop casually
14. Public transport and kiss
15. Oil painting surface and solicit votes

Answers:

1. All and awl
2. Aloud and allowed
3. Alter and altar
4. Ascent and assent
5. Augur and auger
6. Away and aweigh
7. Balm and bomb
8. Bask and Basque
9. Beach and beech
10. Birth and berth
11. Bouillon and bullion
12. Breath and breadth 
13. Brows and browse
14. Bus and buss
15. Canvas and canvass